It might be different for some places but bananas are like 79 cents a bunch, and when you compare that to other fruits like apples and oranges, theyre a good deal
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Bananas are a fruit grown from a tropical plant (an herb, more or less) that resembles a tree (although not woody – so technically not a tree).
The plant grows rather fast (12-18) months and produces a fair amount of fruit per acre. The plant is quite hardy. Taking care of a plantation is relatively easy although manually intensive. This is why bananas grown for sales tend to be in lower wage areas. The plants don’t need to be replanted because it naturally produces suckers that will eventually grow into new trunks and fruit.
The fruits are usually picked before they’re ripe and at that stage, they’re pretty hard and therefore transporting bananas is also relatively easy even over long distances. Bananas will ripen even after picked and this process is usually hastened (by gas) during transportation or at the destination point.
All in all, this makes bananas relatively inexpensive to grow and sell. Since it is carbohydrate and nutritionally dense, it is used as a staple food in many regions – demand is therefore also not a problem.
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